{"id":394284,"date":"2018-01-23T08:31:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T08:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=394284"},"modified":"2018-01-23T08:31:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T08:31:27","slug":"k-b-asante-was-a-fountain-of-wisdom-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/k-b-asante-was-a-fountain-of-wisdom-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"K.B. Asante was a &#8216;fountain of wisdom&#8217; &#8211; Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama has said he is saddened by the demise of renowned Ghanaian diplomat, Kwaku Baprui Asante, popularly known as <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/22\/k-b-asante-passes\/\"><strong>K.B. Asante<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>K.B. Asante, who died at age 93, was described by John Mahama as \u201ca foundation of wisdom from which we all drunk freely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former President in a post on his Facebook wall consoled Asante\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Received the sad news of the passing of &#8216;uncle&#8217; K.B. Asante. Statesman, Diplomat and Civil Servant extraordinaire. His experience straddled our early pre and post-independence era. A fountain of wisdom from which we all drunk freely is shut. Condolences to his family, the Nkrumahist group, and indeed all Ghanaians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>About K.B. Asante<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;N5kKoWvapsLnOUmsW3kX3r2JtLwk2eqL&#8221;]Born on March 1, 1924, K.B. Asante was the Secretary to\u00a0Ghana\u2019s First President Dr.\u00a0Kwame Nkrumah, and served under a number of Heads of States in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as the Principal Secretary at African Affairs Secretariat from 1960 to 1966.<\/p>\n<p>He became Ghana\u2019s Ambassador to Switzerland and the United Nations Offices in Geneva, and the UN establishment in Vienna, and also the Ambassador to Australia from 1967-72.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as the Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Economic Community from 1976-1978.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Life in politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>K.B. Asante retired from the Civil Service in 1978, to form the Social Democratic Front to contest the 1979 election where his party won three parliamentary seats in that election.<\/p>\n<p>He was the Secretary for Trade and Tourism in the Provisional National Defence Council\u00a0(PNDC) administration in 1982, and later Secretary for Education and Culture from 1986 to 1990.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>K.B. 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